Re: Patch to add Sinhala (Sri Lanka) collation to MySQL

[Alexander Barkov]

Hello Harsula,


Harshula wrote:
> 
> 2) ICU Collation Customization (tailorings)
> 
> In strings/ctype-uca.c it is mentioned that the collation syntax is
> based on a subset of the ICU tailoring syntax:
> 
> http://icu.sourceforge.net/userguide/Collate_Customization.html
> 
> However, I'm wondering if MySQL implements this particular property:
> 
> 2. [ & a < b < c < d , & c < m ] => [ & a < b < c
> < m < d ]
> 
> The impression I have is that it currently doesn't increment the weights
> of the letters that follow the newly inserted letter.

You're right, this property is not supported.
All resets are done relatively to the old weights,
not to the newely inserted weights.


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